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cawdron

cawdron is the obsolete form of cauldron.

Meaning of cauldron

Noun

cauldron (plural cauldrons)

  1. A large bowl-shaped pot used for boiling over an open flame.
    • Double, double, toile and trouble; / Fire burne, and Cauldron bubble.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  2. A type of encirclement.
    • Near-synonym: kettle
    Synonyms:
    kettle
  3. (figuratively) An unsettled or difficult situation or place.
    • Near-synonyms: kettle, pickle; see also Thesaurus:difficult situation

Forms of cawdron

pluralcawdrons

Questions about cawdron

What is cawdron the obsolete form of?
Cawdron is the obsolete form of cauldron.

Words near cawdron in the dictionary

  1. Cawayan
  2. Cawayanan
  3. Cawayanin
  4. Cawdor
  5. Cawdrey
  6. cawdron
  7. cawdrons
  8. Cawdry
  9. cawed
  10. cawer
  11. cawers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cawdron (page history and authors); cauldron (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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